it was . as franz a solo blades a military success in mali we take a closer look at the possible complications the campaign could bring in. egypt's military chief us as his country is on the verge of collapse but says the army will stand firm on the continued clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces. and president obama looks to the police chiefs of the u.s. to g.'s devastated by deadly match against the for tougher gun control moves well maybe there is still defend the right to bear arms.

twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is our duty president francois hollande has hailed of france's military intervention in mali as a success in mali an army has made big advances against islamist insurgents all with the assistance of french troops and early archies aton botton told my colleague and he said now about the progress made so far and the problems that have come with it. campaign starts with french troops about two and a half weeks ago sweeping up from the center of the country up to where these these islamist held areas meeting very little resistance really they are they go on there was an incident here in qana where in fact a french helicopter strike killed some civilians apart from that the french had

been welcomed with with street parties and crowds coming out to greet the convoys as they arrived in each of these towns the islamist militants retreating not wanting to stand and fight many people thinking that they have been retreating further into the deserts in the north there's only one town of appreciable size left to capture after the fall of of timbuktu without nearly without a shot fired and then it seems that the next stage of the operation will be to try and hunt out islamist militants who have gone to hide in the desert and many observers think that it's possible a guerrilla war may result in the desert there after that there is also increased involvement from other countries and ecowas force of west african troops about seven thousand five hundred of them are coming into mali to take over some garrison duties and steadily take over the fighting role from the french there's also been talk and brussels of e.u.

troops being sent to train some of the local soldiers and the u.k. has announced it's going to send a small force but then other soldiers also to protect those those troops sent to train local soldiers as well and a new house was already involved as well and it was there was absolutely so far the u.s. has been sending aerial support it's been sending transport planes refueling planes it seems now though it's reported that the u.s. may be in negotiations with an easier next to mali over the possibility. see all of the drone base there and those drones flying from near the border with mali could take part in these operations to try and hunt out the most militants there there's also been talk of a u.s. base down in. the south of mali the details of that not really clear at the moment it is worth noting though that is very rich in natural

resources boyle gold you renia a lot of those exports go to france and the u.s. so we have talk of drone a u.s. base how far could this possibly spread. the question on many people's lips as the as the first phase of this operation winds up where are these militants going to go where is the violence going to go raising the fears that around the region this fighting as the militants are pushed out of the strongholds they've been in they could scatter all over the place and spread violence with them or it might be a fair argument then to say that the french might be getting a little bit ahead of themselves by claiming there's been a successful mission. the government has announced it's sending three hundred fifteen one combat military personnel to mali and west africa there's only two weeks not a prime minister david cameron's pledge that no british army speeds would step on my list labor m.p. jeremy colgan says it would have been better if the prime minister had kept his

promise. david cameron is getting sucked into something that i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we don't have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we've been dragged into this the danger is the more you send any troops in trainers over anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what the term to be insurgent forces what then happens you then go after those groups you then have a greater british military involvement we may well be in for a quite a long term high tech surveillance. warfare being conducted by the french and possibly with britain and others as its allies against people that know the terrain

very well and will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. the head of egypt's army is warning that the country is on the verge of collapse after almost a week of violent unrest between the government and oppositions militias and yet a cabinet you are a law giving the military the power of arrest of the president declared a state of emergency and curfews in three provinces this was ignored by protesters who took to the streets on mass across the country calling for regime change it was no breakthrough in attempts at compromise as the opposition ignored calls for a national dialogue by the president in cairo all crowds continue to clash with security forces leaving piles of burning debris in the streets. co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt says the statement by the army chief could signal the military is playing out its own game behind the scenes. the

surface interpretation of what's happening definitely that there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military that's on the surface however there are deeper interpretations of what's going on some of the interpretation goes as far as that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that they can have. their grip over this waste canal and intensify their presence militarily over there probably really don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would hand over to civilian oversight of the canal rather than military oversight of the canal according to bring you constitution there's something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory structure right now it has more of an executive than has more military

members on board than civilians which outnumbers the civilians including be commander in chief the president which means they can. force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they have been the commander in chief says that he will declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas and some news coming in from syria now activist and rebel say the bodies of sixty five young men have been found on a bank of a river in the northern syrian city of aleppo i must warn you that viewers may find the following fissures extremely disturbing most of them had tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to the hit the bodies were covered in modern show signs of decay activists say more bodies could still be in the water at the moment there is no information on who carried out the killings but for more i'm joined of from

brussels by editor in chief of red online magazine rebels and the government are again blaming each other for this act who do you think is behind this. what about the set needed in. syria is very tragic because these rebel forces have been trained to out of the existing government of syria which is the government of us and their training has been that of massacring the civilian population of that type legal possible silence and this is what they're doing basically this is to did we have to divide these situations between a certain rebellion that started during the assad regime unsatisfaction against the likes of the motor city and that is

a part of the three groups. that are organized around the jihad of the salafi. ideologies and we just believe that destroying basically this society and the country leaders of the syrian opposition say they'll be able to convince all the rebel groups to stop fighting if president assad falls how likely is. the destroyed be you know the situation as of today if assad falls we could foresee already into some other positions off of syria which would route via even the worst catastrophe for the syrians first of all but also for all the neighboring countries. some of the great powers that have been trying to deal with syria so far because this would require certainly a foreign military intervention to try to resolve the case so it is not in the interest of anybody that assad falls mouth getting into

a civilization. where the rebels are not capable of running the country and they're not the majority but. fifty nations recently have all stopped the united nations security council to refer the syrian government to the international criminal court over genocide and war crimes will the west also pursue the rebel leadership through the security council this is a very good question as you well know in this kind of crisis unfortunately crimes are being committed by both sides and certainly being the rebels supported and trained and armed and even paid from the western countries and be some of the gulf states i do not see that they will bring them to legal court at least for the time we have to see what happens in the coming weeks but let's hope that we see.

stop the lies as a tease now because if there is a major mistake from from psalm one this may really slide into a major catastrophe. it's the state of affairs you touched a little bit on the weapons situation we know that these weapons that are flowing in freely from libya through egypt mali iraq and syria how is that contributing to the instability in the region as a whole. oh very very much basically the same people that are being folk by the syrian state so these jihadists and salafist within syria the so-called rebels are the same that france is fighting in mali and the arms are the same provided from the same sources and possibly also the financial means are the same so actually what was started as

a quick attempt to refer regime now has spread all over the region and it is creating instability. i would say from afghanistan down to mali so it's a very large area which is entirely. with the various factions of armed groups which are being trained. organized from foreign forces and they are moving from one place to another you're not dealing with a regular army so these are groups which are very fast moving from one country to another and we see what they certainly need mali the forces which are that are coming guest from libya but also some coming from far away from syria and some of the bible to say even from afghanistan so it's quite a mess the west has failed in the implementation of the greater middle east the strategy that was pushed in by president bush at the time and maybe if some some

new policy has to be addressed using the u.n. for for what they could do which is that of trying to stop this current changes taking place and that instability that you've just said described a has had has western nations are rushing to evacuate their citizens and oil companies stuff from libya they have a safety concerns now with the syrian conflict now escalating can anything be learned from the recent military intervention say. that could be very nice if lessons would be learned by. yes we see after the little venture now we have the french intervention in mali so it doesn't seem that it has been that much so i hired him out very skeptical of the fortunately that any sense in the policy of the western style of marriages in the short term what they see for the time being is the. policy that was from

a russian. foreign minister was very clear for several months trying to push it forward and mounted with. trying to avoid the worst probably until where the west doesn't trickle nuns the strategy is free. from the slide into the worst. cholera for the editor in chief of the stretta e.u. online magazine sharing his thoughts on the subject. meanwhile syria's a rebel coalition is in paris to plead for aid and political backing to overthrow the assad regime the opposition needs money to stay viable but its efforts to form a provincial government have so far failed this as a françoise islamic militants could gain ground and plans the country into further chaos if cash flow is not secured r t caught up with one of the leaders of the opposition and asked him what he thinks is needed to bring peace to syria. we

need this some new weapons against players you know because bashar assad says. airplanes to damage villages and cities and the civilians we need to protect ourselves our children from killing every day we have more than sixteen thousand children were dead for at least twenty two months ago something unbelievably it's our right so to help syrian people and to help and the syrian crisis you need weapons and money is that is that correct yeah sure sure and we need. support also who can cooperate with a man killed more than sixty thousand people we are concerned but we are not afraid you know because of majority of fighter groups in syria is not

extreme is not dearest all live fighting for freedom and dignity and what a loss or group from iraq are these people fighting for freedom and democracy is why they're fighting for freedom and democracy but maybe we will face some problem with them anyway they are just a small part of the evolution is here. but these people recognized even by french president as extremists and terrorists all over the word you can find extremists but they're not their real picture only a small part of it please recognize that. so you are absolutely sure that you will be able to control them these people you're very sure very sure about that. we've also received news that a russian war reporter has been wounded to drink coverage of a syrian government operation to liberate

a mosque near damascus he was hit in the head by a shot from a rebel sniper and has been taken to hospital dr same he's in a stable condition. he. and still to come this hour was seeking out shelter the number of homeless some people in bridgend of said to rise dramatically with many believing that new government policies will only be for the aggravate the situation in the story and must move on to the shelf space. and. choose your language. fully recover the influential senators feel some of the. treatments good use the consensus candidate. choose the opinions that you think are a cool. choose the stories that impact the life choose me access

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you're watching r t. britain which was once proud of having some of the most effective legislation in the world to fend of homelessness now has all the sixty thousand people sleeping rough and with the government answering in public sector spending cuts in an attempt to battle the country's financial troubles the number of homeless people is only expected to rise when to meet some of those living on the streets it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's nowhere for you to go to dry off and no money in your pockets this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to burning in the case capital homelessness. remember right. in there she should drop grandma don't have one reach out i mean you shouldn't be homeless a lot of people do call where the search ordered me real rock car park where people

live. all over the place this is why i got. there yet yes radio here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again people can see you could be walking past you could be sleeping next to a wall song. for every. coldness is stupid specially this time we have to go for four days on the phone to eight twenty one year old much fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a birmingham hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the dole no job running from the moment

trying to get. second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in and out of foster care he's struggled to keep a roof over his head you going to do whatever it takes to find somewhere to sleep following morning. help and support the scariest thing like you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presented as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred the same. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from

a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in birmingham that a lot of people that don't have working been given i suppose with it being such a one time an industrialized center the working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breeding for the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population is expanding the housing stock is and you know it's reached that point where it's just spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates polly boy kerry r t. twenty people have been reportedly killed in a plane crash in kazakstan the plane carrying five crew and at least fifteen passengers went down near the city of our marty in the country's south after one pm

local time reports there were no survivors the challenger two hundred operated by a kazakh company scats was on an internal flight and crashed while trying to land decisions investigators have recovered the plane's of flight recorders and are now examining the data. now to some other world news at this hour one suicide bomber has blown himself up inside somalia's presidential palace in mogadishu killing two people and injuring three others the attacker detonated his explosives outside the main gate of the residence after being stabbed by guards for questioning the president was out of the country at the time of the attack. in belgium police have dispersed thousands of protesting steel workers with tear gas and water cannon several people were injured in the clashes the protest was against planned to plant closures which could lead to the loss of thirteen hundred

jobs the firm which announced plans along with other steel companies face a lack of demand for steel and iron ore this is potentially another blow for belgian workers after the recent announcement ford car factory was shut down. france's labor minister has sent shivers down the spines of his compatriots after announcing that the country is a bankrupt state in a radio interview on sunday michelle us up being a later rebuttal is the comment saying it was a joke we have executive director at d.v. advisors a patrick young here to give us some insight into that statement. was that a harmless as lip how much trouble is a pair isn't well look i mean this is a remarkable moment in the history of the french french the state we actually finally have a politician who told the truth in general he was probably a little bit excessive frances and quite bankrupt yet but the problem is the french

government is the biggest economic are to read from it spans the equivalent of fifty six point five percent of all of the economic activity the only other countries that spend more apart from sweden and the european union are places like north korea and we all know those are not the world's most prosperous nations what mr sub prime said is absolutely true we know what the. french employers association various business associations for the last year have been saying france is in a state of crisis there is absolutely no question the french need incredible radical economic reform it was not present on the sarkozy administration and frankly the feckless and incompetence of mr hall on the president has resulted in the situation we have now i must of poor things of cash these do three billion euros that's the equivalent of about two percent of the entire economy left the country just during october and november last year because mr hollande has the

deluded concept that he can just keep taxing rich people and that will somehow or other make up the imbalance in the economy so the question is then is france already facing austerity well actually it is already facing austerity i mean even though mr hollande is said that he's going to tax and spend even though he's trying to add another thousands i mean i think five thousand or so teachers to the already incredibly bloated two million person french payroll the truth is that he's trying actually to cut spending by sixty billion over the course of the next year that in itself is affectively a net cop of about two percent of g.d.p. because let's face it the last time the french government balance their books was in the middle of the nineteen seventies so in other words the vast majority of people watching this program probably weren't even born at the point in time that the last french government managed to balance the books france is in an appalling crisis barely half the country are paying income tax you've got

a situation where in fact public opinion is not starting to realize that france is bankrupt a poll in the figaro today eighty percent of people agreed with mr suttles comments it's no joke what mr sipe on said it's the truth should parents then announce bankruptcy who would be able to bail them out and they've been helping bail out don't. rest of europe well this is the terrible problem and this is the absolute big new more of the euro fiasco because finally we are in the situation of a country that too big to bail france cannot be bailed out if france hits the buffers then we are going to have the almighty and of the euro project this delusional currency built on sand which was an attempt to try and unite north and south of europe and is ultimately simply driving a wedge through the entire economy of the whole continent you know we can't afford to have twenty seven percent of french you thought employed will france declared

bankruptcy no not not they don't actually have quite enough debt yet although they do have a rather startling ninety one percent debt to g.d.p. ratio but that's me around cheers night compared to somebody like the italians one hundred twenty or the dear old greeks probably one hundred sixty percent although i personally don't believe out so what is saying to me is that the eurozone is going to be ok as long as friends doesn't declare bankruptcy in the next couple of months well let's put it this way i mean we could all look to the heavens and go on going going because we look for a flying pigs i don't really see that there's a way that the over arching dilution of the european union and the euro zone itself that they can save themselves from affectively forty fifty sixty years of pork barrel politics is some horror of they're going to be miraculously saved in the course of the next few months ultimately the lender of last year.